With the initiatives of Türkiye’s Prague Ambassador Egemen Bağış, legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet’s life and photographs, taken in 1956 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia at the time, and found in the Prague National Theater archives, have been made into a
The Golden Lion in Venice was awarded on Sept. 9 to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse, which had festival-goers in stitches. An ongoing Hollywood strike may have robbed Venice
About Dry Grasses, the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan that played in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was submitted by Turkey on Friday to represent the country in the Oscar International Feature Oscar race. About Dry Grasses centers on
The first production co-directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers had to be shot in secret to prevent possible interference by Tehran, directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv told Reuters on Sunday. “Tatami”, a tense thriller centred on a world judo championship,
A monumental artist deserves a monumental documentary, and that is what Anselm Kiefer receives in Wim Wenders’ new film, titled simply Anselm. Wenders shot it in 3D and 6K resolution, documenting the German-born painter and sculptor who makes work on a truly grand
A major feature film on Hiroshima is going into production, inspired in part by an unpublished memoir of a Japanese man who witnessed the devastation of the city after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Scriptwriter Elisabeth Bentley was taken aback
The feature film The Teacher’s Lounge by Ilker Çatak (if… Productions Film) will enter the race for Germany to the 96th Oscars in the “Best International Feature Film“ category. The decision was made by an independent jury whose members were appointed by
Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise. Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in “The Metamorphosis,” we’ve had spider-men, wasps, ant-men, crime-fighting ticks and mighty
The Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Sarajevo Film Festival ended with an award ceremony after more than 230 films from 70 countries were screened. Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” won the Best Feature Film award while Philip Sotnychenko won the best director award for
William Friedkin, the groundbreaking U.S. director of “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” died on Aug. 7, a family friend told AFP. He was 87. Friedkin passed away in Los Angeles after suffering unspecified health issues in recent years, said Stephen Galloway,
